Oooooookay, I’m back, Izzo has been kicked off blog duty, and it’s back to business.  Let’s get started~

What happened since last Friday:

-Art assets and writing continue to get done (herp derp)

-Multiple writers now proofing everything

-Set up an internal set of proper deadlines

Okay, so we’ve namedropped this guy a few times in screenshots and people have idly mentioned him in irc and the steam chats on occasion, so we figure now would be the ideal time to actually reveal our protagonist.

Oliver Penn

After we had a basic outline of what we wanted to do, our first decision was to try and figure out who would play the leading role.  Given the circlejerky nature, we could have gone with a member of the community, but that would lead to some arguments about narrowing It down to one person and defending that choice.  Our ultimate decision came naturally once we considered those things:  our protagonist would be Anonymous personified.  Easy decision, and an obvious one at that!

BUT IT TURNS OUT that trying to design and write a character based on a group of people can be DIFFICULT.  Yeah, that was pretty terrible foresight on our end.  How can you give a character a set personality when your source material couldn’t be any more varied?  Can we even allow for things like character growth?  These questions sound really dumb, but when your goal is to create a character that represents everything and everyone while at the same time making him a unique character things can get rather confusing.

THE ANSWER IS:  we’re working on it.  We have an idea of how to get Oliver to work best, but we can say he is very much his own character with a proper backstory and list of motivations.  Our philosophy is that in order to get a story that at least somewhat works properly, we need a solid character we can rely on.  We have to sacrifice some of that anonymity of the character to make it happen, but we’re compromising by building a personality that summarizes the more noticeable traits of the anonymous posters of the KSG as well as giving the character room to grow in several ways, enforcing the “several people in one body” idea.

PS we have a Twitter now.